AI leaders should win by building better models, not by regulatory capture
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-07-25
The post argues that the U.S. should lead in AI by building the best models and products, while also supporting open source models as a counterweight to regulatory capture by frontier labs. It says the goal should be broad human benefit, not only American or Chinese advantage, and warns that concentrated AI power plus government power could become a form of tyranny.
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